Posted on 01/20/2016 11:45:22 AM PST by PROCON
Minnesota jurist Wilhelmina Marie Wright's written accusation that President Reagan tolerated racism did not hinder her ascent to the federal bench. The Senate voted 58-36 on Tuesday evening to confirm President Barack Obama's nominee to U.S. District Court in Minnesota.
While a student at Harvard Law School in 1989, Wright wrote an article published in the prestigious UCLA Law Review that accused Reagan and his administration of "bigotry" and implied that property rights undergird American racism.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in July, Wright, an associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, renounced the style but not the substance of her remarks 26 years ago.
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The ruling judicial oligarchy has decreed that the actual text of the Constitution, the intent of the drafters, 2,000 years of western civilization, logic, common sense, and all known rules of statutory construction are all utterly irrelevant. The Constitution now says whatever the hell 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices want it to say.
Four of the current Supreme Court Justices (one conservative, one moderate, and two far left wing liberals) will be over 80 years old next year. Of the remaining five Justices, two are young far left-wing liberals appointed by Obama and one (Roberts) is at best a moderate. If even three of the four octogenarian Justices are replaced with young liberals then a far left-wing oligarchy will be ruling the Court and every aspect of our lives for the next 30 years.
On the other hand, we need to replace all four of the octogenarian Justices with truly conservative Justices to take back the Court. Historically, Republican Presidents have batted no better than 50/50 picking conservative Supreme Court nominees.
Reagan gave us Antonin Scalia (a conservative), Sandra Day O’Connor (a moderate) and Anthony Kennedy (a moderate on most issues but a far left-wing liberal in any case involving homosexuals).
Bush Sr. gave us David Souter (a liberal) and Clarence Thomas (a conservative).
Bush Jr. gave us Samuel Alito (a conservative) and John Roberts (sometimes conservative, sometimes moderate, sometimes liberal, pretty much depending on which way the wind is blowing).
Democrat Presidents on the other hand always pick reliably far left-wing Justices.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Yes, and I’m disgusted to admit that two of them, Alexander and Corker, are from TN.
It must be a reelection year for McCain...he’s pretending to be a conservative and voting “Nay” (when it doesn’t matter, of course).
This is the year we reject this fool from the Senate. Support Kelli Ward if you are in a position to do so.
NAYs ---
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gardner (R-CO)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
McCain (R-AZ)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Perdue (R-GA)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rounds (R-SD)
Sasse (R-NE)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Not Voting -
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cruz (R-TX)
Graham (R-SC)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sanders (I-VT)
Scott (R-SC)
Yet, when offered a third choice, he is poo pooed as being inexperienced, out of the loop, and not a representative of the political class that we wish out candidates would aspire to.
He skips the vote when his vote would make utterly no difference.
The nomination passed 58 to 36. If Cruz had voted the nomination would have passed 58 to 37.
Since McConnell refuses to reverse Reid's unilateral abolition of the filibuster on judicial nominations the only way to block any of Obama's nominations is for all of the Republicans to vote against them. In this case, 12 RINOs refused to do so.
The typical U.S. voter today is, sadly, way too easily influenced by the enemedia.
While I’m disappointed in this, it should be noted that Senate Republicans have tremendously slowed the rate of confirmations for Obama’s radical lefties to the courts. They deserve at least some credit for that. However, it’s shameful that more didn’t vote to reject this nominee.
Since the homosexual marriage decision I am starting to turn into a one issue voter.
If we take back the Supreme Court then every far left-wing judicial decree can be reversed. If we fail to take back the Supreme Court then say goodbye to the Second Amendment, free speech and every other right that is currently hanging on by a 5 to 4 decision.
You are SOOOO predictable.
And 100 percent correct. I love when you can’t say I am wrong because I rarely am with these things.
Well, to stop the nominations, all Mitch McConnell has to do is not schedule a vote. They don't need a filibuster - just no scheduling of votes. Really though, what's happening here is the Senate Republicans have slowed judicial confirmations to a crawl with the only real confirmations coming for District Court rather than Appeals Court judges. I would prefer that they held NO VOTES but I suppose that's not realistic.
There is no reason that any more of Obama's radical lefty appointments should have been confirmed since the Republicans took back control of the Senate.
Very good point. If anything, that's at the top of my list for having a Republican president. We definitely need to replace Kennedy with a solid conservative and hopefully take one or more of the liberal seats on the court. That would make me very happy.
But, we'll see, liberals aren't known for their intelligence.
All Mitch McConnell has to do is unilaterally reinstate the filibuster rules that Harry Reid unilaterally abolished. Then it would take only 34 conservative Senators to block any of Obama's nominations.
But McConnell will never do that, because it would take the power to confirm Obama's nominations out of the RINOs hands.
Yep. That is what I guessed.
Why bother if you cannot win anyway? According to many here that is what we should all do and hold our nose instead of voting 3rd party or not at all.
Thank the 17th Amendment.
Article V.
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